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Person Or Place? A Contextual Event-History Analysis Of Homicide Victimization Risk, Emily R. Berthelot
Person Or Place? A Contextual Event-History Analysis Of Homicide Victimization Risk, Emily R. Berthelot
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This study is a contextual event history analysis of the risk of homicide victimization in the United States from 1986 to 2002. Although the majority of research on homicide deals with how community factors influence homicide rates, a much less studied aspect of homicide victimization deals with the influence of individual factors on homicide victimization risk. This study examines the influence of contextual-level measures of social disorganization on the risk of homicide victimization and focuses specifically on how the effects of these measures change once individual-level characteristics are considered in the models. Grounded in social disorganization theory, this study includes …